The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-25
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

SENATE-Bills were passed On the 18th pro-
viding that habitual drunkards shall be sent
enced to an inebriate or insane asylum not to ex-
coed two years; emitting pedagogical graduates
of the State University to q State teachers GER
tifieate after they shall have taught at least
eight months. The bill to repeal the law which
provides for TIE Bureau of Labor Statistics was
defeated.
ASSEMBLY-A Senate bill was concurred in
appropriating $1,000 to the State Dairymens
Association for the next two years. Bills were
passed authorizing county boards to levy an
annual tax of one-f1fth of one mill for aid OF in
digent ex- Union soldiers, or those dependent
on them; appropriatirg 5000 with which to
make school exhibit at the National Centen-
nary School Exposition to be held in Chicago
next July; and incorporating the city of Marin
ette Bills were killed to repeal the law which
prohibits the manufacture and sale of oleomar-
garine and to prevent gambling in stocks,
bonds, petroleum, cotton, gram, or other pro-
.Quce. The resolution providing for the APP
pointment of a committee to visit other States
to look up the question of prison-contract labor
and report two years hence was adopted.
SENATE-Bills were passed on the 10th to in
corporate the city of Marnette, and to appHo-
pirate to George F. Tate 800 in payment for ex-
penses incurred in contesting with Isaac Nc
Cam the seat of member of Assembly from
Richland County.
AsSEMBLY-Senate bills were concurred in
providing that not less than twenty-five persons
may organize a cooperative association; ex-
empting the capital stock of mutual loan asso-
Citations from taxation; appropriating 1851, 900
to various State institutions; suppressing
houses of ill-fame, and providing that millers'
and manufacturers mutual insurance compa-
MES with q cash capital of $4,000 shall be per-
mitted to do general insurance business. The
joint resolution was killed calling for an amend
ment to the constitution prohibiting contract
prison labor; also bills authorizing local option
by counties; fixing telephone rentals and pro-
hibiting telephone determinations; permitting
Supreme, Court Justices to retire at the age of
seventy on s., 500 annual salary, provided they
have served ten years continuously, and to pro-
vide for courtyard town option on the liquor
question.
SENATE-On the 18th Assembly bills were
concurred in exempting the Milwaukee Expo.
sition from taxation; to incorporate the city of
Reedsburg; creating superior court in Mil
waukee; providing that any person who shall
knowingly furnish impure or adulterated milk
to butter or cheese manufactures shall be liza
bic for each offense to maximum fine of 500.
Assembly bills were killed giving county boards
power to regulate the tramp nuisance, and pro-
viding that in counties of eight thousand inhab-
itants or over the salary of the district-attor-
ney shall be not less than 1909 year, and re-
fused to concur in the bill establishing the sal
aries of all State employees and defining the
number of employees in each department. A
bill was passed Furnishing man for abandon
ing his wife and children.
ASsEMBLY-Bills were passed to authorize
Milwaukee to employ city veterinarian at 5000
per year, and to prohibit any person from prac-
ticing veterinary medicine in the State who is
not graduate of the legal school or registered
in the State at least five years A bill provid-
ing for local option in counties was indefinitely
postponed. The Keogh Election bill, applying
to cities of fifty thousand inhabitants, was also
passed. 1t provides severe punishment for any
soliciting of votes and the congregating of peo-
pie within one hundred feet of the polling
places. 1t also provides that no more than four
hundred voters shall reside in any one pre-
cinct, and each polling-place have separate
ticket and voting rooms, voters to pass through
them in single file. Bills were killed to pro-
hibit attorners of courts of record from practic-
ing law, and permitting only actual damages to
be obtained for libel when no malice is shown
and a retraction is published.
SENATE-On the 18th the Assembly bill was
concurred in to incorporate the city of Mans
ton. The Game bill, introduced few DAYS
ago, passed. The Governor vetoed the bill
permitting the county of Douglas to dredge St
Louis Bay on the ground that it conferred
powers conflicting with Federal rights.
AssEMBLY--Bills were passed repeating the
law permitting exemptions of public lands in
Wisconsin; making it misdemeanor for any
public officer to extort by abuse or tricks.
confession from a prisoner in his charge, the
maximum punishment for such offense being
one years Imprisonment or $500 fine; requiring
manufacturers to label cheese according to
grade; forbidding public elections from being
held in saloons; STIMULATING that no agricult-
ural mechanical or similar scientific societies
shall receive any money from the State if they
shall permit either gambling or liquor selling
on their grounds during fairs. A memorial to
Congress was adopted asking for the repeal of
the law imposing an annual tax of 5000 on oleo-
margarine manufacturers. A lively debate took
place on the bill to prescribe the duties of the
State Pension Agent. Mr. Humphrey offered a
substitute which combined the duties with the
Office of the Adiutant-G General, but the substi-
tute was defeated and the bill sent to third
reading. The vote was reconsidered by which
the bill was killed providing for the creation of
school libraries, and the measure was ordered
to third reading
SENATE-The following Assembly bills were
concurred in on the 9th: Requiring railway
companies to keep an axe and a saw on the
the transportation of passengers; permitting
railway companies to appoint police officers for
duty on railway premises; Incorporating the
city of Pittsville; appropriating $1,000 with
which to make school exhibit at the National
Centenary School Exposition in Chicago next
July; fixing the maximum penalty for giving
false pedigree to livestock, or by false pre-
lenses obtaining certificates of registration, at
one years imprisonment or 500 f1e.
AssEMBLY-There was no ses sion.
SENATE-Bills were passed on the 2fst: For
the appointment of three fish wardens at $500
annual salary each; making the maximum i'm
prisOnment for keeping house of ill-fame
three years; prohibiting stock gambling; pro-
hibiting licensing or selling of liquor at any
point outside of and within half a mile of the
boundary of any city, town or village where
liquor licenses are not granted, and providing
for the appointment OF four game wardens at
an annual salary of $500, who shall see that the
game laws are enforced. Assembly bills were
concurredin: Requiring persons dealing in oleo-
margarine to make the quality of bogus butter
known to purchaser; increasing officers mile
age for conveying insane patients to or from
asylums from fiye to ten cents.
AssEMBLY-BilIs were passed: Permitting
guardians. with the same power as those of
minor children, to be appointed by probate
judges for incurable insane patients, on appli-
cation of the superintendent Of asylums in
which they may be confined; reducing the one
mill school tax to half a mill allowing any
school district which maintains school five
months during the year to enjoy the benefit of
the common school fund. Bills were killed: TO
make employers responsible in damages for in
juries received by employees uuder sixteen
years of age; to allow no mining company to
sell stock until 1t has taken out one thousand
tons of ore; to provide for mine inspector and
the organization of iron-mining companies; to
make seven per cent the highest rate of in
terest, and to require all prison made goods to
be marked as such.
Lullaby
Sleep, little babe, upon thy mothers breast,
Let the yhite curtains Of tiny lids unroll'
Or the Slue windows of thy stainless soul: